

Up to four people can play at a time and you get scored on how well you keep up, so there is a nice competitive element to it, but that is a complex as the game gets.ĭance games are still much more fun, and can be a really good way of burning a few calories. Play is very straight-forward: you pick from one of 26 classic, and sometimes not-so-classic, Jackson tunes from Bad to Earth Song, and dance along with either Michael or one of his backing dancers.

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On face value Michael Jackson: The Experience is pretty shallow for a full price game. In the intervening years it's been easy to forget just what an amazing dancer he really was, but trying to keep up with many of the routines in Michael Jackson: The Experience is a really good, and tiring, reminder. I've never been a full-on Jackson fan, but I am very much a child of the eighties and my first ever record (ed: you remember, those black plastic disc thingies) was Smooth Criminal. I'm surprised it has taken so long for someone to release a Michael Jackson themed dance game, it seems like a natural fit. Despite all the great fitness games out there, dance games are still much more fun, and can be a really good way of burning a few calories in your own home while making it feel like anything but work. When Wii Fit was just a twinkle in Nintendo's eye Dance Dance Revolution (Wii) was already being used to get kids up and moving around. Michael Jackson: The Experience may lack depth, complexity and progression, but slick game-play and fantastic source material courtesy of the King of Pop makes it an huge amount of fun.īefore there were exercise games, there were dance games.
